Shaving brush



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SHAVING BRUSH Filed June 25 1931 Q Q I i m g5 INVENTOR WITNESSES 5 jg fizz/17nd ATTORIQEY Patented .luly 11, 1933 UNITED STATES JACOB IVI. HENEIQUEZ, F CURACAO, DUTCH VEST INDIES SHAVING BRUSH Application filed June 25,

An object of the invention is to provide a convenient and hygienic means to prepare and apply shaving. cream, soap and powder.

Another object of the invention is to proride a hygienic brush or dauber which has many advantages in use and which is inexpensive and need not be used the second time.

Preferably, the brush or dauber is made of stiff paper or cardboard with openings there- 19 in, the stiff paper or cardboard being folded for stiffening purposes, and opposite ends of the stiff paper or cardboard being secured together to form a handle.

Additional objects of the invention will appear in the following specification in which the preferred form of the invention is described.

In the drawing similar reference characters refer to similar parts in all the views in which Figure 1 is a plan view showing the blank from which the shaving brush or dauber is formed.

Figure 2 is a plan view similar to the plan view illustrated in Figure 1, but with the blank folded along its longitudinal lines for stiffening purposes.

Figure 3 is an end view of the brush or dauber ready for use.

Figure l is a side view of Figure 3, and

Figure 5 is a plan view of Figure 4.

By referring to the drawing, it will be seen that the brush or dauber is made from a blank 10, this blank having two longitudinally extending folds 11 and 12, which are spaced from each other and which are also spaced from the sides 13 of the blank, the ends ll and 15 being preferably of less width than the width of the central portion of the blank. Atthc central portion of the blank, there are elongated transversely extending openings 16 in the blank which are spaced from the sides 13 of the blank and also from the longitudinal extending folds 11 and 12. tral portion of the blank transversely extending folds 17, each of which is preferably disposed at two elongated transverse openings 16, there being additional transversely extending folds 18 at the outer sides of the There are also at the cen- 1331. Serial No. 546,865.

transversely extending folds 17 andspaced therefrom, each of the transversely extending folds 18 also preferably being disposed at two of the elongated transversely extending openings 16.

lVith this construction, the blank is rein forced by being folded at the longitudinally extending folds 11 and 12, as illustrated in Figure 6 of the drawing, so that there will be three-ply of the blank 15 between the elongated transversely extending openings 16. The blank is then bent at the transversely extendin fold 17 so that the ends 14 and 15 of the blank will extend in the same general direction. The blank is then folded at the transversely extending folds 18 in a di- 'rection opposite to the direction in which the blank is folded at 17, so that the ends 1d and 15 will be disposed together and the brush or dauber will be arranged as illustrated in Figures 3, l, and 5 of the drawing. There 1 is a slit 19 at the end 15 of the blank, the said slit extending through the said end of the blank, and there is a slit 20 at a side 14: of the blank, it being possible to secure the ends 14: and 15 of the blank together at these slits by disposing the ends 14; and 15 with the slits 19 and :20 in alignment with each other and moving the end 15 so that it will be disposed in registery with the end 14 of the blank.

If shaving soap is to be employed, the brush or dauber is dipped in water and it may then be moved back and forth against the sh aving soap so that the brush or dauber at its openings 16 will accumulate sufficient of the shaving soap to make a good lather; The brush or dauber is then used to agitate water within a cup, which will produce the desired lather. lVhen shaving cream or shaving powder is used, this is preferably disposed within the cup, and the brush or dauber is used to, agitate the water with the shaving cream or powder to make the lather.

lt will be understood that the brush or dauber at the openings 16 will serve to carry 7 a considerable amount of the lather at each application to the face, and inasmuch as the brush or dauber has considerable flexibility because of its creases 18, the-face will be to use a new brush or dauber for each shave.

Therefore, the brush or dauber avoids the disadvantages of the present shaving brushes where after shaving they remain wet and attract insects which gather on the brush. This is especially true in Warm climates.

\Vhat is claimed is:

1. In an article of the class described, an

elongated flat thin paper memberwith means for securing the ends thereof together, there being openings in the member between and spaced from its ends, there being spaced apart transverse folds in the member passing through certain of the openings.

2. A shaving brush comprising an elongated flat thin sheet having parallel longitudinal fold lines extending throughout the central portion of the sheet and on which fold lines said sheet is adapted to fold forming a three-ply fold, said sheet having perforations at opposite sides of the fold lines and having means at its ends for securing the ends together.

JACOB M. HENRIQUEZ. 

